morbidity
noun
a morbid state or quality.
morbidities
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pluralof morbidity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Prof Mabbott said: "Living a lot longer, but suffering from the multiple morbidities that can accompany ageing, and in-and-out of hospital for another tissue transplant does not sound an attractive way to spend my retirement!"
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
"Adjuvant therapies, in this case senolytics, have the potential of becoming valuable and effective treatments targeting OSA-induced morbidities."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024
Scientists then started looking into underlying biological mechanisms that can cause long-term psychiatric morbidities.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2023
“In terms of very sick people with covid, it’s almost exclusively elderly and people with a lot of morbidities or who are immunosuppressed,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2023
Over and above all such morbidities was the fact that Kitty was looking at him with the eyes of a frightened child—a real child.
From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
